English Translation

12 copies. V e r t r a u l i c h . The general situation has experienced an end since the end of July, but not for the better. The Croatian government had not been able to maintain the public order, so that Italy, after previous agreement, occupied Croatian Dalmatia and parts of Herzegovina. Further occupations seem to have taken place beyond the contract line. It was agreed at the time that these occupations should only be temporary, but the final decision on this is likely to depend on the further development. It is to be hoped that the S.örung of inner peace in response to the reaction of the l.8 million Serbs against the plentiful violent treatment by the Ustaša formations will be brought back. In addition, the German advance against the Soviet Union triggered a communist counter-action, which increased to attacks and sabotage acts in the capital Zagreb itself. In this context the local telephone station was also destroyed by time bombs, and as perpetrators own officials of the Croatian post office were investigated. Among the scattered sebonic troops, which have so far withdrawn on the mountains and in the forests of disarmament and capture, gangs from the Serbian rural population as well as communists join. The internal war is waged ruthlessly on both sides, and the unrest extends to the city border of Zagreb. The still weak military forces of the Croatian government are hardly enough to keep the main roads open in Bosnia, and even here for . /.